June 11, 2025
On April 01, 2025 Gdynia, Poland based Black Metallers XIFICURK have released their debut full length “1096” via Mara Productions on CD (digipak, jewel case) and vinyl LP (transparent red with black smoke). Two tracks on the album were written by Svartalv Halvorsen (ex – SATYRICON, ex – GEHENNA, NOCTURNAL BREED and lyricist for 1349). A full album stream is available at this location now. All additional information about XIFICURK you will find at www.facebook.com/xificurk.official
Tokyo, Japan based VERDALACK will release their debut full length “Force From The Grave” via Hells Headbangers Records on July 25, 2025, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. Guitarists Vortex and Vandal and vocalist Villain used to be members of the Japanese Thrash Metal band ASSAULT ATTACK, which disbanded in 2018. They restarted in 2022, changed their moniker to VERDALACK and stylistically converted to Speed Metal with huge influences from mid ’80s Speed Metal, ancient US Power Metal and classic Japanese Hardcore Punk. Their debut full length “Force From The Grave” will feature the following tracks: ‘Axehead’, ‘Heretic Flights’, ‘Desecrater’, ‘Blood Eagle’, ‘Final Assault’, ‘Force From The Grave’, ‘Into The Flames’ and ‘Rites Of Hell’. You can already check out ‘Final Assault’ over here. More about VERDALACK at https://verdalack.bandcamp.com
American Black Metallers SIGORSPÉD have just premiered the track ‘Ecstatic Trance Of The Warrior’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Everlasting Wisdom Of The Ancients”, which will be released on July 11, 2025 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The previously revealed album track ‘Malefic Light Cast Upon The Coiled Serpent’ can still be checked out over here. The complete “Everlasting Wisdom Of The Ancients” tracklist reads like this: ‘Ecstatic Trance Of The Warrior’, ‘Legacy’, ‘First Assault’, ‘Psychedelic Communion Under An Endless Sky’, ‘Venomous Betrayal Of The Sacred Dominion’, ‘Twin Blades Of The Order’, ‘Malefic Light Cast Upon The Coiled Serpent’, ‘Requiem For The Fallen’, ‘Trinity Of Ruin’ and ‘The Ties Which Bind An Eternal Brotherhood’. https://sigorsped.bandcamp.com